AeroLynx Music Blog

Awhile ago Damon Albarn confirmed that this year would bring a followup to last year's reasonable showing from Humanz, which we now know will be called The Now Now. Four of these Gorillaz singles were dropped at pretty much the same time, Humility, Sorcererz, Fire Flies and Lake Zurich, the former of which received a ebullient skateboarding video made for summer that catapulted it to the top of the YouTube trending chart. Is it worth the hype? Maybe... but I'll start with Lake Zurich, the first that dropped. The majority of the song is relatively sparse electronic house track, full of elements that fade in and out over the basic key line and the almost natural sounding drums. It's good, wholesome classic house and does this cool switch around three minutes that makes you want to listen for the full long four minutes. It has a weird interlude which sounds like it was from Murdoc and doesn't really make much sense, so it just sounds like Damon Albarn was having fun on ...

When I saw Vance Joy was coming to Prospect Park, I knew I had to go. It was a payed show, but I could stand outside with the only problem being no line of sight to the stage. I didn't really catch the opening acts except for a snatch of rising star Alice Merton's hit single No Roots, as she's touring with him. Vance Joy did an excellent job in his set, playing a pretty long set of which I knew half the songs. He had an acoustically well done arrangement, with contributions from his backing band of mainly brass providing a flawless accompaniment to his excellent singing and acoustic guitar work. He seemed very earnest and tried to explain each song and not go with the flow, but the crowd was really into it and still sang and danced along with every song. I though he'd stop at Riptide, but he also performed Saturday Sun and Lay It On Me to compound a jubilant performance. The crowd howled for a encore, but by that time he'd finished it was ten and he'd already co...